The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to
be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions ...
As expected, the second installment of the Anthology series reflects the Beatles' increasing use of
the studio-as-laboratory during their middle years. Some live material from 1965 to 1966 appears on the first disc, and the second reunion single (Real Love) ...
Considering the quality of the original material on With the Beatles, it shouldn't have been
a surprise that Lennon & McCartney decided to devote their third album to all-original material. Nevertheless, that decision still impresses, not only because the album ...
From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles made 52 appearances on the BBC, recording live-in-the-studio performances
of both their official releases and several dozen songs that they never issued on disc. This magnificent two-disc compilation features 56 of these tracks, including ...
Capitol Records initially planned to release a live album from the Beatles in 1964, recording
the band's August 23 concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Nobody at the label found the results satisfactory so they attempted it again almost exactly a ...
When the Beatles' catalog was remastered and reissued in 2009, it appeared as two separate
box sets: one featuring all the group's stereo albums and one containing all the mono masters. Previously, the band's non-LP singles had been gathered for ...
When Capitol decided to release the original British editions of the Beatles' albums instead of
the bastardized American versions, they were left with a bit of a quandary. Since the Beatles had an enormous number of non-LP singles, some of ...
Once Please Please Me rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut
album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins. As ...